I am a first-year Ph.D. student in Musicology at Princeton University. I earned my B.A. in Music and French and Francophone Studies from Swarthmore College in 2024. I am interested in opera, folk music, and sacred music, especially eighteenth-century French pastoral and Orientalist operas and J. S. Bach’s works. At Swarthmore, I wrote my Music senior thesis on post-Vatican-II church music in the U.S. and my French senior thesis on the collection and dissemination of provincial “folk” songs in late nineteenth-century France. My research has been featured in the Spring 2023 volume of UCLA’s undergraduate musicology journal MUSE and at the 2023 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship conference. I am a Beinecke Scholar, and my work has been supported by the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship and Swarthmore College Lucretia Mott Fellowship.
I maintain interests in teaching and music performance. I am an organist and enjoy accompanying congregations at churches and performing solo repertoire. I have started studying harpsichord and play in Early Music Princeton. As a pianist and violist, too, I appreciate any opportunity to read chamber music with friends. I am a mentor to undergraduate students in Princeton’s Music Mentoring Program. Outside of my studies, I enjoy going for long walks, reading, and trying new foods.
Publications and presentations:
“White Heather Club: A Twentieth-Century Taste of the Highlands.” MUSE. May 2023.
“Reading Exoticism in Saint-Saëns’s Samson et Dalila.” Mellon Mays Undergraduate Conference. Cornell University. November 2023.
Education:
B.A., Music and French and Francophone Studies, Swarthmore College, 2024.